Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has taken the name of Pope Francis, became the new leader of the Catholic Church today. Bergoglio, 76, is a Jesuit from Buenos Aires and is the first pope from South America. He is also the first pope to...


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 A Texas assistant high school principal has resigned after he was arrested Monday for allegedly having sex with an underage student in his office during the school’s prom last spring. Mark Steven West, 30, an assistant principal at Spring High School, in Spring, Texas, was charged with...


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NYC adopts nation's toughest law against refusing to hire unemployed


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Netflix users in the U.S. this week will for the first time see video recommendations from their Facebook friends. As the video above explains, the changes will be manifest in two new rows on Netflix's homepage and app. One row shows "Friends' Favorites," or movies and TV shows that your Facebook friends have given a high rating. The other displays "Watched by Your Friends." You can also break it down by items watched by specific friends. To get such information, you need to connect your Netflix and Facebook accounts. To share your favorites and recently watched films, you need to do the same. There is an option, however, to not share certain titles as well. You can also unshare any item that you've previously shared. According to Netflix, the activity "will only happen on Netflix," and won't appear in Facebook's News Feed. Netflix has been trying to get Facebook integration for U.S. users for some time. However, the decades-old Video Protection Privacy Act (VPPA), which prohibits...


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Prosecutors in a closely watched trial beginning today in Steubenville, Ohio, opened their case against two star high school football players by describing a night of partying that turned ugly when the teens allegedly sexually assaulted a girl too drunk to stand, speak or stop them.


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Police in upstate New York have cornered an armed man they say shot and killed four people earlier today at local businesses.


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Today's Top Photos From Around the Globe


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President Barack Obama said his meeting today with House Republicans was “useful,” closely matching the assessment of House Speaker John Boehner, who called the meeting “productive.” “It was good, I enjoyed it,” Obama said of the closed-door meeting, which ran 30 minutes longer than planned....


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Although flashy vehicles were parked outside the hotel during Saudi Princess Maha Al-Sudairi's entire six month stay, the director of a luxury car company that provided the vehicles said he's yet to receive $2 million-worth of back payments.


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